drivel
noun
saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
drivelled
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past participleof drivel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof drivel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
drivelnounsaliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
Example Sentences
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“Yet you will say to His Majesty that I did suggest–yes, I do now–that they had better not––” His utterance drivelled to incoherency.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
There are multitudes of cases in which, when too great a weight has been crowded on the delicate organism through which thoughts move, its balance has been upset, and it has drivelled into idiocy.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Dogs, dogs," drivelled old Horace Talbot, "Beachfield 's always talking about dogs.
From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The conversation drivelled on in this way for a few miles, and finally turned into a heated discussion of the wine-list at the back of the menu.
From On the right of the British line by Gilbert Nobbs
There was no other word to express it; drivelled.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
